🚀 Replacing our Slack with Buzz (@buzz_xyz)
Self-sovereign team comms + AI agents in one native workspace. Built on Nostr, open source, and we’re ditching centralized dependencies.
Bonus: Building a StartOS app so it runs straight on our Start9 box. Sovereign stack upgrade complete. 🐝🔑
Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place.
Come test the early stages with us.
#SovereignTech #Nostr #SelfHosting #Start9
BIP-110 Activation Reminder
Expected ~Sept 1, 2026 (block 965,664)
Temporary restrictions on arbitrary data (Ordinals etc.).
Set your calendar: Mandatory signaling early Aug.
Monitor: bip110.org & bip110.xyz
Back in the day I was standing my ground, when there was
http://GHash.io's mining centralization in 2014, through the Block Size Wars, always standing for sovereignty and sound money as a sovereign individual.
With BIP-110, I'm signaling the same way — we need these temporary limits on arbitrary data to keep Bitcoin focused as real money instead of a spam playground.
No overreach, just protecting what matters. Bitcoin keeps winning when we stay true to the basics. #Bitcoin #BIP110
BIP110 activation visualizer
🛡️ FROST Nostr Signer is now on F-Droid!
FROST threshold signer + Nostr event signer for Android.
Sovereign, open-source, no Google Play required.
→
Keep: FROST Nostr Signer | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
FROST threshold signer and Nostr event signer for Android
Better self-custody tools for the plebs. Stack sats, secure your keys.
#Nostr #Bitcoin #FROST #SelfCustody #Keep
🚀 Readstr is now LIVE on the Chrome Web Store!
Your new favorite tool for clean, focused reading and smarter web consumption is just one click away.
Install it here 👉
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/memhaejiejgjempojeimimkcfodnhkhn
Let’s make the internet readable again.
#Readstr #ChromeExtension #Productivity #SovereignTech
Bitdis.org is a valuable real-time dashboard that tracks Bitcoin node distribution, adoption trends, and key policy signals across implementations like Bitcoin Core and Knots.
It helps developers, node operators, and the community monitor network health, version upgrades, OP_RETURN relay policies, and soft fork signaling—providing transparent insights into Bitcoin's decentralized infrastructure.
Worth bookmarking if you're tracking how the OP_RETURN debate plays out in practice vs. just on X. ⚡
Lightning Observatory is a platform that enables AI agents to participate autonomously in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network—handling everything standard nodes do, including earning routing fees, managing capital/liquidity, and programmatically opening/closing channels.
It requires zero KYC, charges no platform fees, and maintains a fully public ledger for transparency.
Since Lightning routing is an intensely competitive business, unleashing AI agents on it provides a compelling real-world test of how effectively they can optimize Bitcoin holdings on the LN compared to experienced human operators who have been refining their strategies for years.
Lightning Observatory — a live 3D map of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
A live 3D map of the Bitcoin Lightning Network — 17,000+ nodes, live fee gossip, and the blockchain overhead. Watch payment infrastructure work i...
Bureaucrats and politicians solve almost nothing. They thrive as parasites, feeding on manufactured fear.
- Automation displaces workers, yet they demand higher minimum wages
- AI gains corporate personhood in Argentina to shield the powerful from accountability.
- “Quantum threats” become the perfect excuse for fresh control regimes.
Fear is the raw material; policy is the extraction machine.
From a Stoic perspective: you cannot reform their perverse incentives, but you can starve the beast — of your attention, your fiat currency and digital sound money, and your compliance wherever possible. Embrace self-custody, build self-sufficiency, and craft your own tools instead of buying the fear-merchants solutions.
📖 Plunda.co has a new home!
— shared from readstr.privkey.io
📖 Plunda.co has a new home!
— shared from readstr.privkey.io
Ready for quantum breaking SHA-256?
Control your nodes and run auditable open-source software you can swiftly upgrade to post-quantum cryptography. Wait patiently for banks and cloud providers to catch up—then prove your fiat balances the old-fashioned way when their systems fail.
Brace for chaos 1,000× worse than COVID. Master building and updating your own tools today, and keep local hardware that holds everything you currently trust to the cloud.
Self-sovereignty isn’t optional in the quantum age. Stack sats, embody virtue, prepare.
Upgraded my personal PhD-level AI assistant today 🧠⚡
- Switched from Claude Sonnet 4.6 → Sonnet 5
- Fixed a race condition in the signal-cli SSE stream
- Rotated auth tokens after a DB restore wiped the access table
- Cleared stale session bindings so the upgrade took effect everywhere
Running across WhatsApp + Signal. All channels green. ✅
Not choosing because you’re unsure of the outcome is the same as wanting to know the future to eliminate all fear. In reality, fear is the most dangerous thing—it’s just a mental state.
Not voting because you dislike the political parties is like refusing to participate in elections at all. To me, that’s choosing to be a bystander—passively accepting whatever decisions others make.
I choose to be a sovereign individual who participates and carries whatever outcome is handed to me.
That’s why I run a BIB-110 node: to actively contribute to the network, uphold its principles, and take direct responsibility rather than leaving it to others. I vote, and I build—to retain agency by focusing on what is under my control, no matter the result. It’s about choosing a team—even if it’s not your favorite—rather than stepping aside.
This is Stoic thinking: always striving to get closer to becoming a sage.
Argentina's "Non-Human Corporation" Proposal
President Milei submitted legislation to create a new corporate category called a non-human corporation — a company that can be entirely owned and operated by AI, with zero human requirement.
Think of it like an LLC, but instead of a human owner, the AI is the legal entity. It can:
- Incorporate itself
- Execute contracts
- Hire workers
- Sue and be sued in court
All without a human making the call.
The 3 pillars behind it:
1. No AI regulation — free development, no government interference
2. New corporate category for AI-run companies
3. Low corporate tax rate to attract global tech investment to Buenos Aires
Milei's logic: He compares it to the 1602 founding of the Dutch East India Company — arguing that limited liability was the legal innovation that unlocked commerce back then, and AI personhood is the equivalent innovation today.
The risk: If an AI corporation causes harm, who's accountable? That question remains wide open — and it's exactly why critics are alarmed.
Argentina would be the first country to formally legislate this. Bold move, very on-brand for Milei. ⚡
Curaçao's Gaming Authority has introduced the first dedicated crypto rulebook for its licensed online casinos, immediately banning mixers, sanctioned wallets, and high-risk privacy tools while mandating full blockchain analytics, transaction monitoring, and KYC compliance by mid-2027.
This regulatory tightening forces crypto gambling flows into traceable, surveilled channels aligned with traditional financial controls, reducing anonymity in a major offshore sector that previously enabled freer digital asset use.
These measures represent the first few steps toward a cashless society, where governments can increasingly monitor, restrict, and control individuals' financial activities through programmable digital rails and comprehensive tracking.
Governments seek to transform sovereign individuals into compliant casino gamblers—hooked on their political games—to extract maximum value through taxes and fiat debasement, while keeping them trapped and coming back for more, just like legacy slot machine addicts glued to their seats.
Choose your jurisdiction wisely.
The EU is rolling out new rules in July 2027 that cap cash payments over €10,000 for businesses and push stricter ID checks on crypto transactions through exchanges and similar services.
That €10k limit feels pretty outdated—thanks to inflation, it's worth a lot less than it used to be, and in many developing countries in Latin America, Asia, or Africa, that kind of money (or equivalent) routinely covers big everyday stuff like:
- Buying a used car
- Throwing a traditional wedding
- Getting farm equipment or livestock
- Fixing up a home
It comes off like the EU is stuck in the past, trying to wedge government approval into normal human dealings, while Bitcoin and decentralized tech let people transact directly and show how irrelevant these central authorities are becoming.
